Bruce Lee: Enter the Game Alert, alert! I need this game! Somehow I missed it during my Thanksgiving weekend food coma, but 2 million downloads can’t be wrong. Downloading it right… NOW. Arcade-style Bruce Lee action is available on iOS and Android devices. Thank goodness! Joe Kowalski’s Impossible Games He was asked to participate in…
[NSFW] Sex Criminals Review: The Perfect Cervix
Sex Criminals #8 Matt Fraction (W), Chip Zdarsky (A) Image Comics The last issue ended with Suzie, Jon, and Rach adrift in a sea of black, with Suzie and Jon’s crimes suddenly exposed for Rach to see. This issue takes place a little bit later, so we aren’t shown what happened immediately after the end…
Girls in Tights: The Fever by Megan Abbott
The Fever Megan Abbott Little Brown and Company Deenie’s life is turned upside down when her friend Lise collapses into a unexpected and violent seizure in class. One by one, other girls throughout her school fall ill as well. Soon Deenie, her brother Eli (the school’s star hockey player and womanizer), and her father, Tom…
741.5: Liberté, Égalité, Brimping
After I purchased the first volume of Sex Criminals for my library, it was requested that I prepare a “letter of defense” in the event that it was challenged. Dear Library Patron or Trustee, Hello! I see that you disagree with my choice to purchase Sex Criminals Volume One : One Weird Trick by Matt…
Red Sonja: The Black Tower #03
Red Sonja: The Black Tower #03 Frank Tieri (w) Cezar Razek (a) Dynamite November 26, 2014 We return to the adventures of the She-devil with a Sword, the Babe with a Blade with the bust that doesn’t rust (seriously, is rust not an issue with chainmail?). Amanda Conner continues her duties on covers: Seriously, gold…
Webcomic Profile: Kylie of TransGirlNextDoor
There are a few webcomics I follow religiously — Kylie’s TransGirlNextDoor is one of them. Started in November of 2013, the comic depicts everyday life as a trans woman. Her art is hilarious and colorful and brings joy to my life, and only leave me wishing there were more comics about being trans. Kylie works as a…
Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections
It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….
Spiritual Gender-Bending in Solanin
SPOILER WARNING: This essay contains spoilers pertaining to Inio Asano’s Solanin
Laila & Luther: If You Go Down To The Woods Today, You’re Sure of a Big Surprise
Here are some important things in the world of sex: arousal, desire, active consent, i.e. the decision to get fucky made by all, appreciation of each body involved, a jolly good time, and positive interaction following the deed.
The Power of Tank Girl: One Girl’s Personal Diary
Are you ready for some TANK GIIIIIRL? Many of you may have been born ready. Many of you may know her of old. But if you’re new? No probs. That just means you’re lucky, cos the tank’s full (of comics), and the night is long. Tank Girl is a girl—a woman, in my reading, but…
Suburban Gothic, with Matthew Gray Gubler and Kat Dennings, Is Rad
Full disclosure: I’m volunteering at Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and while I can’t trash the festival to hell and back (would I? I would not), I’m not required to give the films good press. This one deserves it though. Suburban Gothic Director: Richard Bates Jr. Writers: Richard Bates Jr., Mark Bruner Cast: Mathew Gray Gubler,…
Off With Her Head! Klimt Goes To Drakulon: A Discussion of Art, Reference, and Story
Gorgeous, right? This is Judith and the Head of Holofernes, or Judith I, by Klimt. Gustav Klimt is enduringly famous, as his work should be — it’s also often referenced. Judith, the subject of the picture, is an Old Testament heroine who achieves political grace by gratifying and then beheading the general who is ransacking her…